Apparently I am Spam

The other day I was reading an old friends blog and as I occasionally do I posted a comment to his blog. So since I do not use livejournal one of his regular readers thought that I was spam. I always post my name and a link to my blog so that my friend knows that it is me and not spam. Anyway, I was really surprised to find that people would think that I am spam. It is not like I was posting links to poker or viagra or something of that nature that you see all the time showing up in your referrer logs. I hate blog spam just as much as the next guy and maybe even more so since I see a lot of it out there on the internet. I have posted about this old friend a few times before. His wife and I are friends and he and I go way back. I don't get to see them often and try to keep in touch as much as we can.

Interesting Week

This week has been an interesting one from my perspective. First off on Tuesday I was on my way home from work when traffic comes to a dead stop. So I did what everyone in front of me was doing I moved over a lane. It turned out that they were doing construction at a major intersection. Of course there were no signs that morning or the day before to warn of the construction. They had a sign up about 1 mile from the actual intersection. So as I am sitting there in this long line of traffic I see cars in the lane that is closed thinking oh we can get ahead of everybody by driving in the closed lane. Dumb idiots. So after this jackass goes flying by me at 60 miles an hour in a closed lane I changed how I drive through construction zones. I was also behind a van during all this so instead of staying directly behind the vehicle in front of me I move over just a little bit so I am part in my lane and the lane that is closed. So if you are one of those jackasses who think that you can cheat in a construction zone your going to have to hit me first before you get by me. So what should have been a 30 minute easy commute turned into a 45 minute one way nightmare. Needless to say I have found another route around the nightmare that is a construction zone for now.
We did also get some very much needed rain this week. Although we are still in a rain deficit for this year it was enough rain. We are also due for some more rain today and tomorrow as this system is hanging around our area.

My Niece Olivia is a Comedian

This afternoon I was talking to my dad on the phone. My niece is staying with my parents this week while my sister and brother in law are on a trip. Anyway, my dad asked if Olivia wanted to say hello to me and of course she did. She is so cute. She was chatting away with me and telling me about starting preschool next week. Anyway, as she is chatting she says that she misses me and can't wait to see me. During the course of the conversation she says I have something to tell you. I asked her what is it that you want to tell me? She says I live in Atlanta now, but when I was a little girl I lived in Huntsville which anyone who knows me and my family knows that my Niece was born in Atlanta and has lived there all her life. I thought it was too cute. Every now and then she will say something like that of course all of the adults get a kick out of that. I would love to see the look on my sisters face when Olivia tells her what she told me. She also said that she saw pictures of Stacy and I when we were little. My question is how old are the pictures that she is talking about and how funny were we dressed? Anyway, I thought that this story was worthy of posting and what a comic a 4 year old almost 5 year old can be. She never ceases to amaze me.

Stupid People

So this morning I was driving to work as I usually do. I always look ahead to see what is coming up and the possibility of people darting out in front of me. So I was more than halfway to my destination this morning between 6:30 and 6:45 when this women walking her dog crosses in front of me. I had a green light. Yes you heard me it was a green light. That sucker was not going to get any greener so this woman walking her dog walks right in front of my car on a 4 lane road. So being that I am such a nice person I stopped so she could cross without getting hit. I look up as she is in the lane next to me and she is not only walking her dog but she apparently is talking on her cell phone not paying attention to the fact that she is crossing a 4 lane road where the the speed limit is 45 MPH and cars regularly exceed that. Most people are in the range of 50- 55mph in that stretch of road. This stretch of road also has a turn lane as well. There are lots of businesses on this road and lots of traffic. With all the bans on talking on your cell phone while driving should we now ban stupid people from walking their dog and talking on there cell phones too? It is people like that wind up getting stupid cell phone laws passed and make the rest of society suffer for it. My question is who in the hell would be carrying on a conversation at 6:30 in the morning. Do lawmakers think that all of society is as dumb as this woman I am talking about? I sure as hell hope not or we are all in trouble.